The Magician's Cape
A cape that gives its wearer magical power in a Swedish folk tale. In the tale 'The Magician's Cape', the cloak lets the hero fly, become invisible, or work spells, and is won, lost, and recovered through the story's tests. The cape is a classic object of wonder-tales: a garment of ordinary cut that carries extraordinary ability. In the Swedish telling the ancient magician of the mountain keeps a black flying cape sewn from the wings of a thousand bats and stitched with thread spun from midnight; with it he soars over the treeline and across seas, and no one can follow him. The captive girl As